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The story behind Chang'e is also interesting. Essentially, she is the wife of a legendary hero, Hou Yi(后羿), who saved the mankind from dying of drought due to t

The story behind Chang'e is also interesting. Essentially, she is the wife of a legendary hero, Hou Yi(后羿), who saved the mankind from dying of drought due to the presence of nine Suns, by shooting all but one of them down. Chang'e stole the Immortal Pill, and eat it alone without her husband knowing. After she ate it, her body became to float and she flied to the moon, to live there alone forever as her punishment, with only one rabbit being her companion. Sounds familiar? Yep I believe if you are a Naruto fan, you can make a lot of connections.

dempseye 8y ago
The trisolarian plot in Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem also seems to have borrowed from this myth.
- sthomas1618 8y ago
  Having read (and enjoyed) that trilogy, I'm not making the connection. Which part?
  - nitrogen 8y ago
    There is a 3-star system that causes periodic droughts on a planet in the system based on which star(s) the planet's semi-stable orbit crosses.
  - headsupftw 8y ago
    In the novel, the three-body civilization would go extinct if there are two or three suns in the sky.
rukuu001 8y ago
Beautiful story, thanks for sharing :)
scotty79 8y ago
> with only one rabbit being her companion. So that's why one of their rovers was called "Jade Rabbit"
- freeflight 8y ago
  The "moon rabbit" [0] is a rather popular interpretation of the Moons surface in Asian folklore. Japanese/Korean people believe the rabbit is pounding the ingredients for rice cake. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit
mattio 8y ago
What did the rabbit do, to be punished with her :-P
- Rooster61 8y ago
  The silly rabbit tried to eat the kids' Trix
_void 8y ago
Smite fans will know all this lore as well :) Chang'e main here.
- pfdzm 8y ago
  Nothing more fun than a duo Hou Yi/Chang’e lane with their respective wedding skins :)
dbllxr 8y ago
In one (more romantic) version of the lore, the Mystic Realm awarded Hou Yi (the husband) the Immortal Pill/Potion after he prevented the earth from being scorched. He and Chang'e were going to both take the potion so they can be together forever. A group of bandits heard about the potion, and broke into their home while Hou Yi was away, Chang'e had no choice but to swallow the potion entirely and that gave her divine powers in addition to immortality, she was able to escape and ascend into Heaven, and because she's no longer human, she and Hou Yi were forever separated...
teacpde 8y ago
And to add to that the relay satellite is named Queqiao (鹊桥, Megapie Bridge). It is how the separated lovers Zhinv (织女, Vega) and Niulang (牛郎, Altair) meet once every year. Zhinv is the seventh daughter of the Yuhuangdai (the god of gods, like Zeus), and fell in love with human Niulang. After discovering with anger, Wuangmuniangniang (wife of Yuhuangdadi, like Hera) separated the two with the Milky Way. Touched by the love story of Zhinv and Niulang, the magpies form the Queqiao bridge to help them meet once a year on July 7, which became the Chinese Valentine (七夕).
- codychan 8y ago
  Most of Chinese think Yuhuangdadi(玉皇大帝) and Wangmuniangniang(王母娘娘) are husband&wife, they work together to control all the gods(gods are not like western gods, they have 仙 and 神), but there are multiple versions of myths(books) and rumors mentioning them, none of them tells the relationship of them for sure, we can only deduce their relationship from the context. From different versions of sources, they can be: 1. husband&wife, 2. colleagues, 3. sister&brother, 4. mother&son.
glandium 8y ago
And the rover, Yutu(玉兔) is the jade rabbit, who pounds a mortar and pestle in Guanghan Palace on the moon. She later escapes to earth and Chang'e brings her back to the moon in 西遊記 (Journey to the West) right before Sun Wukong (孫悟空; japanese reading: Son Gokū; yes, like in Dragonball, heavily based on 西遊記) defeats her.

dempseye 8y ago

The trisolarian plot in Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem also seems to have borrowed from this myth.

sthomas1618 8y ago
Having read (and enjoyed) that trilogy, I'm not making the connection. Which part?
- nitrogen 8y ago
  There is a 3-star system that causes periodic droughts on a planet in the system based on which star(s) the planet's semi-stable orbit crosses.
- headsupftw 8y ago
  In the novel, the three-body civilization would go extinct if there are two or three suns in the sky.

rukuu001 8y ago

Beautiful story, thanks for sharing :)

scotty79 8y ago

> with only one rabbit being her companion. So that's why one of their rovers was called "Jade Rabbit"

freeflight 8y ago
The "moon rabbit" [0] is a rather popular interpretation of the Moons surface in Asian folklore. Japanese/Korean people believe the rabbit is pounding the ingredients for rice cake. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit

mattio 8y ago

What did the rabbit do, to be punished with her :-P

Rooster61 8y ago
The silly rabbit tried to eat the kids' Trix

_void 8y ago

Smite fans will know all this lore as well :) Chang'e main here.

pfdzm 8y ago
Nothing more fun than a duo Hou Yi/Chang’e lane with their respective wedding skins :)

dbllxr 8y ago

In one (more romantic) version of the lore, the Mystic Realm awarded Hou Yi (the husband) the Immortal Pill/Potion after he prevented the earth from being scorched. He and Chang'e were going to both take the potion so they can be together forever. A group of bandits heard about the potion, and broke into their home while Hou Yi was away, Chang'e had no choice but to swallow the potion entirely and that gave her divine powers in addition to immortality, she was able to escape and ascend into Heaven, and because she's no longer human, she and Hou Yi were forever separated...

teacpde 8y ago

And to add to that the relay satellite is named Queqiao (鹊桥, Megapie Bridge). It is how the separated lovers Zhinv (织女, Vega) and Niulang (牛郎, Altair) meet once every year. Zhinv is the seventh daughter of the Yuhuangdai (the god of gods, like Zeus), and fell in love with human Niulang. After discovering with anger, Wuangmuniangniang (wife of Yuhuangdadi, like Hera) separated the two with the Milky Way. Touched by the love story of Zhinv and Niulang, the magpies form the Queqiao bridge to help them meet once a year on July 7, which became the Chinese Valentine (七夕).

codychan 8y ago
Most of Chinese think Yuhuangdadi(玉皇大帝) and Wangmuniangniang(王母娘娘) are husband&wife, they work together to control all the gods(gods are not like western gods, they have 仙 and 神), but there are multiple versions of myths(books) and rumors mentioning them, none of them tells the relationship of them for sure, we can only deduce their relationship from the context. From different versions of sources, they can be: 1. husband&wife, 2. colleagues, 3. sister&brother, 4. mother&son.

glandium 8y ago

And the rover, Yutu(玉兔) is the jade rabbit, who pounds a mortar and pestle in Guanghan Palace on the moon. She later escapes to earth and Chang'e brings her back to the moon in 西遊記 (Journey to the West) right before Sun Wukong (孫悟空; japanese reading: Son Gokū; yes, like in Dragonball, heavily based on 西遊記) defeats her.